June 2018
Intermediate to advanced
596 pages
12h 39m
English
The Eclipse Memory Analyzer (https://eclipse.org/mat/) can be used to analyze heap dumps created by VisualVM. It provides additional features such as auto memory leak detection. Furthermore, by using it as an Eclipse plugin, you can quickly jump to the source code from the heap dump reports. You can use this tool either as a standalone application or as an Eclipse plugin. We will see how to use it as an Eclipse plugin in this section.
To install the Memory Analyzer plugin and analyze the memory dump, perform the following steps: